title: Dual fungal and plant cell culture.
abstract: Plant tissue cultures are now well-recognized as valuable experimental systems for use in the study of host-pathogen interactions. These techniques have obvious major advantages for the examination of obligately biotrophic fungi and also those with a necrotrophic life style, and it is in these areas that much research effort has been concentrated (1). Success with combined fungal-plant cultures has been variable, especially in terms of establishing cultures that may be maintained in a balanced state for prolonged periods, but there is no doubt that such systems are useful places for the study of cell-cell interactions.
authors.affiliation: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donovan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Isaac
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Collin